 On this day, the sky was obscured very soon after I got up. A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain. The prospect down was horrible. It gave an idea of numbers of abysses, concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very...  Handbook for travellers in North Wales - Page 99by John Murray (publishers.) - 1861 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1812 - 1052 pages
...resting-place, after the fatigue of the morning. On this day, the sky was obscured very soon after I got up. A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain....concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very often a gust of wind formed an opening in the clouds, which gave a fine and distinct... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1812 - 1070 pages
...was obscured very soon after I got up. A vast mist enveloped, the whole circuit of the mountain. Th* prospect down was horrible. It gave an idea of numbers...concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very often a gust of wind formed an opening ia the clouds, which gave a fine and distinct... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 528 pages
...resting-place, after the fatigue of the morning. ' On this day the sky was obscured very soon after I got up. A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain. The prospect down was horrible. It gave the idea ol a number of abysses, concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very... | |
 | 1836 - 600 pages
...resting-place, after the fatigue of the morning. • On this day the sky was obscured very soon after I got up. A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain. The prospect down was horrible. It gave the idea of a number of abysses, concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
..."At another visit," he writes, "a vast mist enveloped the whole of the mountain. The prospect below was horrible. It gave an idea of numbers of abysses, concealed by a thick smoke furiously circirculating round us ; very often a gust of wind formed an opening in the clouds, which gave a fine... | |
 | George Nicholson - 1840 - 692 pages
...the lower part of my face." On another visit to Snowdon, Mr. Pennant gives the following account: — "A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain....abysses, concealed by a thick smoke furiously circulating around us ; very often a gust of wind formed an opening in the clouds, which gave a fine and distinct... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...the same celebrated traveller remarks : " On this day, the sky was obscured very soon after I got up. A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain....concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very often a gust of wind formed an opening in the clouds, which gave a fine and distinct... | |
 | Edward Parry - Wales - 1843 - 244 pages
...in all their grandeur and sublimity. Pennant was thus on one occasion overtaken by a thunderstorm. " A vast mist enveloped the whole circuit of the mountain...the prospect down was horrible. It gave an idea of a number of abysses, concealed by thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very often a gust of... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1843 - 402 pages
...At another visit,' he writes, ' a vast mist enveloped the whole of the mountain. The prospect below was horrible. It gave an idea of numbers of abysses,...us ; very often a gust of wind formed an opening in the clouds, which gave a fine and distinct view of lake and valley. Sometimes they opened only in one... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1846 - 808 pages
...another visit," observes the same writer, "a vast mist enveloped the whole mountain ; the prospect below was horrible ; it gave an idea of numbers of abysses,...concealed by a thick smoke, furiously circulating around us. Very often a gust of wind formed an opening in the clouds, which gave a fine and dislinct... | |
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